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BARLEY
BOAR
HEAD (SMALL)
HEAD OF APOLLO
HORSE
HORSE W/ NET
The
pieces in this series are based on Celtic coins
from around 300-100 BCE. The Celts learned about
coin making from Philip II of Macedon (Alexander
the Great's father). Before their treaty with the
Macedonians, the Celts had insisted on barter.
At
first the Celtic coins were very close to their
Macedonian counterparts, but soon the artists
began to put their own particular cultural
imagination to work. The result was what art
historians call "disintegration", that
is, the breaking down of the realistic image into
abstract parts.
It
used to be thought that this 'abstraction' was a
cheapening of classical art, based on lack of
skill, but we now know that abstraction is a more
sophisticated way of seeing the world than
classical realism, and typical of tribal
aesthetics.
All
brooches can also be ordered as necklaces
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inspiration
artifact:
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BARLEY Size: 1 1/2"
BOAR Size:
1 1/2"
HEAD (small) Size: 1 1/2"
HEAD OF APPOLLO Size: 1 3/4"
HORSE Size:
1 1/2"
HORSE W/ NET Size:
1 1/2"
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